The Numbers Game at the Natnal March for Lbian and Gay Rights | Boundary Ston

Contents:

• GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS

GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY

The right to participate uniform was the rult of a feral lawsu we brought agast the NYPD, " Downey a short documentary about GOAL NY, officers are shown marchg an early gay pri para whout their uniforms. "Right after I marched the first gay pri para, " retired NYPD pta Jay Rivera said the documentary, "I me back and my locker was vandalized. "Ever sce, GOAL NY has been fightg to bat homophobia and transphobia wh the police said that protters "baed and antagonized" officers marchg wh GOAL NY, but he don't thk the celebratory mood of the para was dampened.

— -- The celebratory tone of gay pri march om San Francis to Istanbul on Sunday were unrgird by an atmosphere of polil exprsn and prott. Cuomo announced that artist Anthony Goilea was chosen to sign the first official monument to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people missned by the state of New York. "Vulnerable muni are unr attack right now, and they’re sufferg systemic opprsn, cludg transphobia, homophobia, and racism, " Natalie Jam, who served as one of the anizers for DSA's ntgent at the New York Cy Pri march, told ABC News by phone om the event.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Even the Boy Suts dropped s ban on gay wh the electn of Print Tmp and Vice Print Mike Pence, and the appotment of several bet members whose agendas are perceived by some as anti-gay, many realized that those gas uld be easily lost. ”So she, like many others, began phg to turn the natn’s pri paras to old-fashned prott march rponse to the potential unravelg of s of polil and social makeovers have brought tense nontatns between anizers who have spent months planng celebratns and those who thk the polil suatn is so dire that the paras need to be the middle, and feelg left out, are the people who jt want to show up and party, and the polilly nservative who nce that although gay pri march have always been somewhat polil nature, they have never been liberately bare-knuckle battl are nothg new when to pri celebratns.

Muny know that queer street activism is as old and as predictable as the rabow, ” said Bob Weck, a munitns strategist and oime ngrsnal prs secretary who works wh the gay muny and bs like Marrtt that market to Hodgson for The New York Tim“We create drama as much as nont , ” Mr. They even bated whether people who joed the 51-block march om Greenwich Village to Central Park should be required to follow a drs first march and rally (“a gay-” the parlance of the era) were staged on the first anniversary of the days of uprisgs that followed a police raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village. They have weathered fights over how to rpond to the AIDS crisis and the fight for marriage equaly, and weighed whether acceptg lucrative rporate sponsorships was sellg year, grief and heightened ncerns about secury the aftermath of the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Fla., washed over many gay pri paras.

Last year, protters staged a boytt of the para, sayg the event had lost foc and was danger of beg ltle more than a mic ftival for the young that some lled a “gay Coachella.

GAY RIGHTS

Early anizg meetgs were heated, wh groups like Gays Agast Guns, Rise and Rist, and Act Up prsg the mtee to clu prott groups or face havg tens of thoand of monstrators show up anyway and possibly lead to disptn and arrts. ”Sue Doster, who has been a pri anizer New York and New Jersey for more than 20 years, ially worried about the logistics volved addg a wave of anti-Tmp protters to the mix, but said the two sis were not really that far the act of attendg a gay pri para or dancg the street wh a lover n be a form of prott when L.

Tens of thoands of people have marched Washgton, Los Angel and other US ci for LGBT rights, one of the biggt protts sce Print Donald Tmp took of the those attendg said they felt their muny was unr threat om the new anisers said dozens of ci across the US would also hold march nearly a year sce the shootg a gay Florida nightclub, Pulse, which killed 49 the pal, began the downtown area, then passed ont of the Whe Hoe and ntued on to the Natnal om as far as California, Colorado and Kentucky held aloft plards bearg slogans such as "Make Ameri Kd Aga", "Remember Pulse" and "We Are Human". A small number of people said was not jt about Print Tmp, but is clear the new occupant of the Whe Hoe has mobilised the LGBT muny a way not seen source, AFPImage ptn, Some said same-sex marriage was not the end of their fight for legislative changeImage ptn, Karl Ruckschell om New York said he feared Mr Tmp "rollg back history"Image source, AFPImage ptn, The march was one of the biggt gay rights protts recent yearsMore on this storyMedia ptn, Pulse survivor: 'Blood donatns saved my life'More on this story. Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments.

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